buy comics, save the world

If you've respected what Fantagraphics stands for and what we've done for the medium, if you've enjoyed our books, and if you want to insure that this proud tradition continues into this new and ominous century, were asking you to help us now in our especial hour of need by buying some books. Put simply, we need to raise about $80,000 above our usual sales over the next month, and the only way to do that is to convert books into cash.

I'm going to do my part by purchasing some items today. I bet all of you could find at least one thing at the Fantagraphics site that you would love to have.

Sure, there are many charities you could be giving to. There are people who are in dire need of help. So why give a portion of your hard-earned money (or tax credit) to a comic book distributor? Well, I don't have an answer to that for you, just for me.

I view comics and comic related books as viable forms of literature and art and I'll do anything I can to help keep this art form alive and thriving. That's it in a nutshell.

Thanks, Michele.
There was a shockingly coherant article in a Seattle paper about the crisis as well. (It may be the first time in 15 years I've read an article about the comics biz in a major paper that wasn't totally full of errors and misinformation.)

I of course have ulterior motives for wanting to see messages like this (Fantagraphics not only employs me, but lets me blog comics from The Comics Journal's website), but thank you very much nonetheless.